{"id":199546,"date":"2023-06-13T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T11:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=199546"},"modified":"2023-06-13T07:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T11:46:34","slug":"super-tucanos-bribes-case-to-be-heard-again-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/06\/13\/super-tucanos-bribes-case-to-be-heard-again-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Tucanos bribes case to be heard again in court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/super-tucano-e1686656290518.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199565\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Super Tucanos corruption case was remanded to restart in a National District Court. The Court of Appeals revoked the court decision that in May 2022 had cleared former Minister of the Armed Forces Mayor General Pedro Rafael Antonio Pe\u00f1a, Air Force colonel Carlos Piccini N\u00fa\u00f1ez, at the time in charge of special projects of the Dominican Air Force, and businessman Daniel Aquino Hernandez from the accusations of accepting bribes to favor the Air Force purchase of Super Tucano aircraft during the the administration of former President Leonel Fernandez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office appealed the sentence that discharged those accused of receiving US$3.5 million in bribes from Empresa Brasileira de Aeron\u00e1utica (Embraer) in selling eight Super Tucano airplanes to the Dominican Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court acted on an appeal presented by Wilson Camacho of the Specialized Administrative Corruption Prosecution Agency (Pepca) of the Attorney General Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The First Hall of the National District Court of Appeals judges Doris Pujols Ortiz, Rafael B\u00e1ez and Carmen Mancebo annulled the decision that had discharged Pe\u00f1a, Piccini and Hernandez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2023\/06\/12\/anulan-sentencia-que-descarga-a-implicados-en-compra-de-aviones-super-tucanos\/\">N Digital <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/super-tucano-y-soborno-cronologia-del-proceso-de-adquisicion-DJ4658885\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/corte-revoca-sentencia-que-descarga-acusados-en-el-caso-de-aviones-super-tucano\/\">El Nuevo Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/09\/29\/pepca-appeals-sentence-that-discharged-those-involved-in-super-tucano-case\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 June 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Tucanos corruption case was remanded to restart in a National District Court. The Court of Appeals revoked the court decision that in May 2022 had cleared former Minister of the Armed Forces Mayor General Pedro Rafael Antonio Pe\u00f1a, Air Force colonel Carlos Piccini N\u00fa\u00f1ez, at the time in charge of special projects of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/06\/13\/super-tucanos-bribes-case-to-be-heard-again-in-court\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199572,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199546\/revisions\/199572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}